APTi Ethics - Summary

 

A Summary of Reminders for Delivering Psychological Type Assessment Services Via Voice-to-Voice, Image-to-Image, or Email-to-Email

Setting the Contract

• Be sure to clarify how you will charge your phone, web-conferencing, or email time to the Respondent.

Administering the Psychological Type Inventory

• Provide written directions to the Respondent, reminding them that taking the assessment is voluntary, that type does not assess mental or emotional health, and that results are confidential and belong to the Respondent.

• Provide directions for accessing the online administration website (if appropriate), be sure to include your contact information, should the Respondent experience difficulty during administration and need to contact you.

Providing Feedback

• Assessment results must not be returned prior to the Respondent receiving an overview of psychological type or before having the opportunity to assess his or her Self-Estimate Type.

• After the Respondent has received an explanation of psychological type and the psychological type instrument, and identified his/her Self-Estimate Type, the results may then be emailed or mailed to the Respondent.

Verifying Best-Fit Type and Exploring Applications

• Additional interaction with the Professional should always occur after the Respondent has received and had the opportunity to review his/her assessment results.

• This interaction should include both assisting the Respondent in identifying his/her Best-Fit Type, and also exploring ways the Respondent can apply psychological type in his/her work setting or/or life circumstances.

Example of a Typical Voice-to-Voice Assessment Process

1. Set the contract with the Respondent over the phone.
2. Email information to the Respondent regarding taking the psychological type inventory on-line.
3. After the Respondent has completed the assessment, download the Respondent's results to your computer. Do not send the results to the Respondent. Review the results prior to the phone interpretation session.
4. Conduct an initial telephone interpretation session with the Respondent to provide a brief history of type theory, to discuss preferences, to provide descriptions of the type preferences, and to have the client indicate his/her Self-Estimate Type.
5. Email results to Respondent.
6. After the Respondent has reviewed his/her results, conduct another telephone interpretation session to discuss the assessment results. Include in this conversation a discussion of best-fit type, activities to aid the Respondent in clarifying his/her type preferences, and possible applications of type.
7. Schedule future telephone interpretation sessions as needed.

The following articles are provided to further clarify the ethical use of psychological type instruments:

APA Ethical Principles (refer to sections 3, 4, and 9)

Person-to-Person by Roger R. Pearman, APT Bulletin of Psychological Type, Early Spring 2002

"Person-To-Person" Interpretation Is New Minimum Standard by Ray Zeisset, APT Bulletin of Psychological Type, Late Autumn  2002

Throwing the Baby Out With the Bathwater by Roger R. Pearman, APT Bulletin of Psychological Type, Winter 2003

Feedback Requirements for the MBTI Instrument: Part I by Naomi Quenk and Jeffrey Hayes, APT Bulletin of Psychological Type, Spring 2003

Feedback Requirements for the MBTI Instrument: Part II by Naomi Quenk and Jeffrey Hayes, APT Bulletin of Psychological Type, Summer 2003